Michael Bazzett’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, 32 Poems, Best New Poets, and Forklift, Ohio. He is the author of The Imaginary City, published in the OW! Arts Chapbook Series last year, and The Unspoken Jokebook, coming soon from Burning River. His verse translation of the Popol Vuh is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2015. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two children. His poem “Verisimilitude” can be found in HFR53.